Top Gear USA to Stig to tested formula

Despite Ben Collins recently revealing himself as The Stig - the world's most famous anonymous racing driver - the American version of Top Gear that debuts later this year is believed to stick with the successful formula and include its own Stig.

17 September 2010CHRIS HARRIS

The Stig's portly American cousin as seen on Top Gear UK.

Despite Ben Collins recently revealing himself as The Stig - the world's most famous anonymous racing driver - the American version of Top Gear that debuts later this year is believed to stick with the successful formula and include its own Stig.

In a previous Top Gear episode, we saw The Stig's "Fat American cousin" (pictured), though it's understood that the real anonymous tame racing driver will not be this truck-driving Stig.

According to rumours, the American version of the popular British motoring show is in production, with filming for car testing at a decommissioned Marine Corps airbase outside Irvine, California.

Top Gear America was originally slated to air in early 2009 on the NBC network but was dropped due to high production costs and concerns that it would not develop an audience following the failure of the revived version of Knight Rider.

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